{"product_id":"damned-if-i-do-stories","title":"Damned If I Do: Stories","description":"Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePercival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47842551267554,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-7.65-895","price":33.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_410_TUjKHDfSl.jpg?v=1780134372","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/damned-if-i-do-stories","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}